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Re: xkb keyboard layout vs. input methods im-chooser



Maybe reading this will help you understand more details:
http://foolab.org/node/91

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:43:20AM +0300, Anas Husseini wrote:
>  AFAIK, it's not a bug. This 'لا' is deprecated in the new versions due
>  to some issues. I am sure Khaled can explain this with more details.
> 
>  On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Muayyad AlSadi <[1]alsadi at gmail dot com>
>  wrote:
> 
>  > I maintain xkeyboard-config's packages in Debian (and thus in
>  Ubuntu...). You can send me a bug report with the exact things you
>  want.
> 
>  OK. but Is it a bug!
>  It's very simple question
>  when the key having B is pressed in Arabic layout we expect two
>  letters to be queued
>  U+0644 followed by U+0627
>  not U+FEFB (as it was defined in the old xkb mapping)
>  but because we don't know a way to map a litter to a sequence of two
>  characters
>  some one suggested that we should disable this, and he did it.
>  so if there is a way to make it map to two characters
>  or do we need input method
>  note: the people who compain about it are used to type
>  BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>  which should become لالالالالالالالالالالالالالالالالالالا
>  which means nooooooooo no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
> 
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> References
> 
>  1. mailto:alsadi at gmail dot com
>  2. mailto:Developer at arabeyes dot org
>  3. http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
>  4. http://linostar.arablug.org/

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